Very interesting thread, but it's the same massive blind spot that caught Democrats last fall. Narratives about our immediate experiences absolutely do come from our personal experience.Telling people "The economy is great!" when 5-10% of key swing voters knew their experience was NOT lost the race.
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Eliot Higgins
Lippmann wrote Public Opinion in 1922, arguing that most people don’t form opinions based on firsthand experience. Instead, we construct a ‘pseudo-environment’ - a simplified version of reality based on what the media presents to us.
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